More on the birth of computing here in the UK with news about another set of articles about early UK computing, Tom Flowers and his involvement in the building of the Colossus.
In a previous post I talked about my visit to Bletchley Park home of the WW II Enigma code cracking team and saw the rebuilt Colossus in all its glory.
It’s a real shame that Winston Churchill instructed that all of these great machine be destroyed, who knows what Britain’s future what would have been, had we have had the foresight to keep them and build on their success?
Here’s one view on that ‘Colossus’ mistake!
Beasley's Place 